• acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    a) He’s right and you know he’s right. Doomscrolling is not healthy and tech companies maximize engagement regardless of the addiction and mental health implications.

    b) He was talking about the state of journalism and in that specific context what he said makes even more sense.

    c) That epic sculpture he’s sitting in front of is sick and looks like what a comic book corrupt cardinal would be sitting in front of while threatening batman or something.

    d) Fuck the church institutions that cover up decades of abuse and horrible crimes.

  • celeste@kbin.earth
    63·
    3 days ago

    This article is fascinating in its choice of headlines. It briefly mentions the headline quote, and then goes on to primarily talk about the number of journalists who were killed last year. It was just an article about a conference the pope spoke at, but i really thought it’d be about something else before i read it. Successful clickbait, i guess???

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      You’d think they’d lead with the journalists. Guess they think cellphones are more important.

    • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

      This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

  • dicksteele@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    I find it hard to trust this source. This sounds like ai generated garbage when you listen to the voice in the video.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Moreso than unquestioningly believing the ramblings of a bunch of half high goat herders from 2000 years ago?

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      Comments wiil be full of “bUt ChRiStIaNiTy”

      Like in every OTHER thread Lemmy wont shut the fuck up about FB/IG/TT/Etc and their engagement algorithms and how they are manipulating society…

      Yes, the broken clock is right.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, they’re both shit.

        Unending scrolling on short attention span websites is obviously bad

        Believing in any religion is obviously bad

        See? It’s not that hard

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    I’d typically agree but since I’ve scrolled Lemmy and News (Apple’s news app) rather aimlessly for ~1 year now I notice a lot of people are behind or misled on a lot of topics. They’re usually stuck in an echo chamber but some just generally have lives to live offline.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    71·
    3 days ago

    Okay, grandpa. Time to take off your pointy hat and lay down for your nap. You’ve had a big day!

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think complex developmental factors create kiddy diddlers while heirarchical and “mandated” social structures give them the power and access they’re really interested in.

      Blind fanaticism is a separate problem.